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I added up all those parishes around Lafayette and the population is around 475,000 according to the 2010 census. Considering the western "half" of Kern County, which makes up the Bakersfield DMA has close to 800,000 people. These DMAs still make zero sense, unless you assume that people in my county live 8 per household.

The Eastern "half" of Kern County gets Los Angeles locals, and has a population of around 50,000.

Unfortunately, a start date is not known here, at least that I've noticed anyway.

Hopefully it won't be much longer...

~Alan

I've been waiting 5 or 6 years for Monterey/Salinas (with a short stint convert to Comcast and back last football season) so another week or two or whatever it's going to be isn't going to matter much!!

Would have been nice for Opening of College Football today (will have to watch my Huskers in SD on ABC, but I'm used to that by now!)

Appreciate the news that it won't be long (fingers crossed that this won't be another 2 year test cycle).

I had a little hiccup in getting up the change to the Columbus/Tupelo, MS market yesterday, but it's up now.

I'll need to update the DMA standings soon, but I'm going to be busy a lot this week, so it may be next week until I can update them. I could find some free time... we'll see. In the meantime, just keep in mind that they are not necessarily accurate.

So per Brighthouse Kern County is at 827K people, that sounds about correct. If 80% are in the Bakersfield DMA that would be ~662K people. Divide that by the 223K households and you get 2.97 persons per household.

So per Brighthouse Kern County is at 827K people, that sounds about correct. If 80% are in the Bakersfield DMA that would be ~662K people. Divide that by the 223K households and you get 2.97 persons per household.

Sounds pretty accurate to me.

Well then Lafayette, LA is pretty inaccurate. They only have 550,000 in their DMA yet have 229,000 households and are two higher than us on the list.

By the way, the population of Kern County was over 850,000 in 2010 and it hasn't been shrinking. Bakersfield's DMA is well over 750,000. East Kern County is in LA's DMA with the biggest city being Ridgecrest at around 20,000. Everything in the western 2/3rds of the county is in our DMA.

Any new word on when they may be coming? I heard 2012, but I am having my doubts.

No 'new' word. The 'old' word, on directv.com, lists you for HD Locals launch in 2012. So you have a 16 week window open in front of you. But historically, there is lesser activity from Thanksgiving through the end of the year, so you are realistically looking at some time in the next 11 weeks.

Sigh . . . another football weekend, with all network college games and Sunday night NFL only available from DirecTV in SD. Hope Monterey HD locals will emerge from testing before the season progresses much further but am prepared for disappointment.

Sigh . . . another football weekend, with all network college games and Sunday night NFL only available from DirecTV in SD. Hope Monterey HD locals will emerge from testing before the season progresses much further but am prepared for disappointment.

My heart is with you. I am sorry. I know it is taking forever (that is the opposite of 'soon').

Being in TEST mode is not a bad thing. Far better than not being in TEST...